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 ESSENTIAL VOCABULARY - 1 6. When the British arrived in Australia, they
discovered that the native population took a
keen ---- in astronomy.
1. When Sarah rejected my offer to marry, I was
really ---- and ate almost nothing for days.
A) interest
B) account
A) accepted
C) balance
B) insisted
D) solidarity
C) claimed
E) intention
D) increased
E) disappointed

2. Mrs. Smith, who is famous for her ----, keeps 7. Jennifer used to be very irritable, but,
inviting me and the other workers to offer us surprisingly enough, she has been very ----
good food in her house. recently.

A) uselessness A) unhappy
B) bravery B) painful
C) silliness C) quick
D) generosity D) cheerful
E) irritability E) elegant

3. Whenever I need something ---- to make me 8. I think respect should be given to people that
happy, I listen to classic music. you admire, and being an elder doesn't ----
mean that they deserve respect.
A) excited
B) tolerant A) tentatively
C) choosy B) desperately
D) inspiring C) necessarily
E) imitative D) favourably
E) meticulously

4. Although Erica keeps talking ---- about her 9. When I first ---- teaching, my students were
athletic skills, nobody else on the team thinks too ignorant to even know what the capital of
she is a good runner. England was.

A) lazily A) informed
B) slowly B) started
C) cheaply C) confessed
D) modestly D) rejected
E) boastfully E) emphasized

5. When my father ---- my sister that he loved 10. With the increase in the amount of the emission
her dearly, she broke down into tears. of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, the global
environment is now under great ----.
A) knew
B) told A) source
C) asked B) portion
D) promised C) donation
E) explained D) aspect
E) threat

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11. It is interesting that Alice is ---- to come on 16. It is impossible to answer ---- whether the
this free trip, considering that she never world will be a safer place if Western powers
misses such opportunities. retreat into their shells.

A) willing A) defensively
B) reluctant B) conclusively
C) incorrect C) extremely
D) obstinate D) descriptively
E) merciful E) comparatively

12. I ---- remember writing stories on my computer 17. Mary was sure that she wasn’t being ---- fairly
ten years ago, but I don’t know exactly what I in her new workplace, where she was the only
was writing about. officer to work overtime in return for nothing.

A) primarily A) treated
B) wastefully B) cured
C) distinctly C) behaved
D) carefully D) scolded
E) helplessly E) invited

13. The best way to ---- after a hard day’s work is 18. New archaeological discoveries in Australia
to drink a large glass of milk. have pushed back the date for Aboriginal ---- in
Australia to at least 40,000 years.
A) relax
B) waste A) ability
C) reverse B) assistance
D) affect C) presence
E) consider D) application
E) determination

14. When the Reagan boom began in 1984, the 19. My attempts to get into Oxford University
American stock market doubled, so Americans weren’t exactly ----, but I managed to get into
have enjoyed a rising ---- since then. Cambridge, which is also a good university.

A) decay A) impatient
B) decline B) futile
C) failure C) aimless
D) wealth D) successful
E) hazard E) fruitless

15. Francis is chiefly ---- in buying a computer 20. It is obvious that the Internet has become ----
with a good graphics card, because he loves important to organizations for certain aspects
playing video games. of electronic commerce.

A) concerned A) hesitantly
B) scared B) constructively
C) apparent C) reluctantly
D) temporary D) simultaneously
E) interested E) increasingly

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21. Languages spoken in the five states of south 26. There is a general agreement that weather
India ---- the Dravidian family and most of the has a profound impact on human health, but
languages spoken in the north are of Aryan scientists do not ---- the precise mechanisms
family. involved.

A) belong to A) turn up
B) bring up B) bring about
C) take off C) agree on
D) make out D) take off
E) lay down E) pass away

22. When a pot of cold water is ---- a hot stove, 27. When Andrei was about two years old, both his
the temperature of the water rises steadily parents died in a car accident, so he was ---- by
until the boiling point is reached. his older brother.

A) switched on A) brought up
B) figured out B) passed out
C) placed on C) signed off
D) gone out D) taken off
E) turned down E) come into

23. We applied for a trademark, but were ---- by 28. Parkinson’s disease is thought to ----
the registry because another business had a degeneration of cells in the basal ganglia, a part
similar name. of the brain involved in initiating movement.

A) put away A) break down

B) turned down B) run out of
C) taken down C) put up with
D) broken into D) deal with
E) given away E) result from

24. One of the keys to ---- more about climate 29. Palaeontologists have made a revolutionary
change and global warming is in recording discovery that provides clear evidence as to
and watching the weather more closely. what may have ---- the mass extinction of
dinosaurs millions of years ago.
A) breaking out
B) going off A) seen off
C) ruling out B) brought about
D) finding out C) broken into
E) catching up D) given away
E) put through

25. The amount of future climate change largely 30. Experts once feared that young children
---- the amount of heat-trapping gases exposed to more than one language would
released by humans. suffer “language confusion,” which might ----
their speech development.
A) makes up
B) takes away A) give up
C) runs out B) pay off
D) puts across C) make out
E) depends on D) hold up
E) run out

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31. After his wife abandoned him, Jack left the 36. People who have a fast lifestyle are ---- a
country, ---- his three children ---- him. much greater risk ---- heart disease.

A) with / beside A) at / for

B) back / for B) in / from
C) in front / without C) on / into
D) on / about D) from / under
E) under / from E) behind / off

37. After my father started gambling, we lost

everything ---- once.

32. Carole had a bad accident last week and ---- A) by

then, she has had to work ---- home. B) at
C) in
A) after / to D) on
B) on / about E) with
C) since / from
D) for / next to 38. Mary woke up and took a glance ---- the watch
E) towards / for ---- the wall.

A) in / by
B) from / for
C) at / on
33. The world we live ---- is changing so rapidly D) with / by
that it is sometimes difficult to keep ----. E) on / in

A) on / with 39. We should keep the wolves away from our farm
B) in / up ---- all costs unless we want to starve ---- death.
C) to / away
D) by / down A) by / with
E) into / out B) on / by
C) in / from
D) at / to
E) on / into

34. Getting hired by a well-paid job is very much 40. ---- a month’s time, we will have replaced our
---- hitting the lottery. car ---- a new one.

A) for A) By / from
B) as B) On / by
C) inside C) Through / at
D) from D) Until / inside
E) like E) In / with

35. In the United States, two ---- three adults are

reported ---- be overweight.
ANSWER KEY
A) among / as 1 E 9 B 17 A 25 E 33 B
B) about / for 2 D 10 E 18 C 26 C 34 E
C) towards / wit 3 D 11 B 19 D 27 A 35 D
D) out of / to 4 E 12 C 20 E 28 E 36 A
E) underneath / at 5 B 13 A 21 A 29 B 37 B
6 A 14 D 22 C 30 D 38 C
7 D 15 E 23 B 31 A 39 D
8 C 16 B 24 D 32 C 40 E